Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Thursday, November 27, 2014

This week our cover features the power of Google and other digital-age giants. The internet tends towards monopoly. Does that mean—as a resolution in the European Parliament suggests—that governments should break these companies up? John Micklethwait, Editor-in-Chief

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